Quick fun with AIR & Dailymugshot.com

So i’ve been playing with DailyMugShot.com for the past couple of months. DailyMugShot is just that – you take 1 picture every day of your mug. Well I wanted all my mugshots and there wasn’t a direct way of downloading them from the site. They have an RSS feed for your shots, but it only shows the current picture.

They do have a little flash based badge that you can post to your site.

So with some hunting around in the firebug output I found where the little flash piece calls a service for the sequence of images. The dataservice is simple XML (Yay!), and I like ActionScript 3 and XML. So, I wrote an AIR app that downloads all my mugshot images. It is really basic and urls and final file locations are all hard-coded, but it was a fun 45 minutes and worked like a charm and I have all my past mug shots.

Here are a few of my favorites:

Update: If you’d like to play with dailymugshot.com I’ve compiled an AIR Application that will download all the images for a given user ID (you can get the userID from the slide show page URL)

download:\"DailyMugGetter\" AIR Application(980.95KB)added: 15/03/2010 clicks: 705 description: Allows you to download all images for a UserID from http://www.dailymugshot.com

8 responses

Where do the images get downloaded? It looks like it is pulling my photos down, I just can’t find them. Thanks.

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John Crosby

September 16, 2013

I should create a directory on your desktop named “dailymugshots”. In that directory it should create a directory using your userID and all the images should be in that directory.

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Mike

September 17, 2013

I just saw it. I feel stupid now. It works great. I wish they had made a way to do it but I’m glad someone smarter than me figured it out!

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delboywilson

November 3, 2013

Hi John, great idea, thank you. For me, it only downloads the photos up to “03/26/2012″ and no further. Any ideas why?

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John Crosby

November 4, 2013

Weird, I don’t know. I’ll check it out and let you know.

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Jimmy

November 21, 2013

Hey thanks for the application it’s really helpful! The thing is that it downloads the pictures that were taken up until 2012 because the website went down and is not being updated anymore. So I was wondering if there’s a way I can get my newest pictures from 2013?

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John Crosby

April 29, 2013

Yep it still works. You need to use your user id not your username. To get your user log into your account and then go to “My Mug Show”, then click the “See Your MugShow” link at the top of the page. The URL will have your user id at the end.